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If getting Let's Encrypt to work with HAProxy is your only struggle, you'll soon overcome it and be loving HAProxy. And there are multiple ways to set up Let's Encrypt, if you don'…

You can think of it as having layers of redundancy. * Retries are one layer. By default set to 3 retries. HAProxy will retry the failed connection or request with the same server. …

kzrdude, great feedback. These big version announcements gather the attention of people who may not be familiar with HAProxy and so, I'd say they are a unique case where we should …

The HAProxy Data Plane API performs a validation check: it sends the -c flag to the HAProxy process before reloading to make sure that it is a valid configuration. If the configura…

Try the haproxytech images, which are updated for 2.0: https://hub.docker.com/search?q=haproxytech&type=image . There is also information on using the ingress controller here: http…

The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller ( https://github.com/haproxytech/kubernetes-ingress ) uses the same Go library that the API is layered on top of: the "client-native" libr…

It was fun writing this blog post because the API covers a lot of ground in terms of what can be done programmatically with the configuration. I've wanted something like this for i…

In fact there is a software-based Enterprise version of HAProxy that is subscription based.

Although HAProxy is not a web server, it does have Small Object Caching so files can be cached on the proxy. https://www.haproxy.com/blog/whats-new-haproxy-1-8/#http-sma...

With the Data Plane API, expect to see tighter integration with Consul. For now, there is this integration https://www.haproxy.com/blog/building-a-service-mesh-with-ha...

HAProxy can proxy HTTP/2 at Layer 4 or at Layer 7, to get all the HTTP message data and perform routing based on that, etc.

What open-source NGINX lacks that open-source HAProxy has: * ACL rules with full support for logical if statements [1] * active health checks * end-to-end HTTP/2 [2] * Robust loggi…

I'm one of the co-authors. Any questions? Happy to try to answer.

As the author, any questions I might be able to answer, let me know.